Magician David Blaine shoots himself in mouth as bullet trick goes wrong

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David Blaine, master magician and illusionist, shot himself in the mouth as he performed one of his scariest tricks: the bullet catch.

While preparing for his television show Beyond Magic, Blaine was attempting to catch a bullet in his mouth. He was fitted with a gum shield that went in this mouth. The shield held a metal cup – and that’s what he would actually catch the bullet in.

But the clip that aired on the show shows that this trick went wrong – in a big way. The metal cup slipped out of the gum shield. When the bullet hit, the shield shattered.

He was taken to a hospital, where doctors found that he had a lacerated throat.

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You do realize that this is being filmed with a super-slow-motion videocamera?
And the camera follows the bullet so you can view it all in slow-motion. Pretty sure you can’t fake that with the standard methods for the bullet catch trick.